12 December 2006
Fear of torture or ill-treatment/incommunicado detention
MEXICO
At least 149 people in detention.
The authorities have brought serious criminal charges, reportedly
including ''terrorism'', against 138 detainees held in a federal prison
in Nayarit state. They were arrested during the 25 November
demonstrations in Oaxaca. In many cases, those arrested were reportedly
From Indymedia
by Jacob Muller
Tensions run high in the city of Oaxaca following the recent wave of
apprehensions and detentions. On November 24 and 25 alone, 141
people were detained, and detentions have continued.
Whats happening?
At midday on Friday the 17th of November the Online Resistance
Alliance is calling a virtual sit-in of the G20.org
http://g20.org website. Starting
at midday, this action shall continue for half an hour each day, until
the conference finalises on Sunday the 19th, with the largest action
to take place on Saturday the 18th. This has been organised to
coincide with and complement the vast street protests taking place in
MEXICO: Guerrilla attacks complicate Oaxaca crisis
(Oxford Analytica, 08.11)
Wednesday, November 8 2006
EVENT: Several bombs exploded in Mexico City on November 6.
SIGNIFICANCE: The bombings further complicate the political situation three weeks before Felipe Calderon takes office as president, and add an additional dimension to problems in the southern state of Oaxaca. Further attacks cannot be discounted.
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In Oaxaca, Violence Erupts Near Campus
Battles Between Police, Protesters End Two Days of Relative Calm in
Mexican City
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, November 3, 2006; A25
OAXACA, Mexico, Nov. 2 -- Thick black smoke darkened the sky over Benito
Juarez Autonomous University on Thursday as Oaxaca erupted in the most
intense fighting since federal police occupied the city on Sunday.
A Successful Assault on Power is
Possible
By Alberto Hijar
September 9, 2006
This report appears on the internet at
http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article2036.html
Brutal, forced globalization and the downfall of Soviet and European
socialism demand the deconstruction of historical power blocs. In Mexico,
the defeat of the Institutional Revolution Party (PRI in its Spanish
initials) forms part of the corporately legitimized political and economic
Mexico City
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060918/ross
Also check out:
http://www.radioplanton.net/
The seven-judge panel known as the TRIFE, charged with deciding the
legitimacy of Mexico's murky July 2 election and confirming the new
president, is the nation?s court of last resort. What the judges
decree is literally the last word, the end of the line; there is no
appeal.
On September 5, the last day the Constitution mandated the TRIFE to
